Elizabeth Taylor, billion-dollar celebrity perfume queen

By Sarah Feldman

Katy Perry to Paris Hilton: They’ve got nothing on Liz. The violet-eyed icon kicked off the celebrity fragrance craze back in 1991 with the launch of White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor. Since then, the scent has grossed over $1 billion in sales for the Elizabeth Arden company, making it the best-selling celebrity fragrance ever to hit the market.

How’s that for a bit of fragrance trivia?

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Read up on all of your White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor facts in our Perfume-o-pedia.

And doesn’t the brilliant Richard Avedon image of Taylor, above, make you want to revisit the iconic floral? (See more of the photographer’s work here: http://www.portrait.gov.au/site/exhibition_subsite_avedon.php)